Sentence examples for puller from inspiring English sources
noun
Anything that pulls, but especially a hoist in which a cable is attached to a lever and a ratchet mechanism.
Pham Van Binh, a 43-year-old cycle-rickshaw puller, had climbed the bronze statue of General Tran Nguyen Han, a 15th-century warrior who fought Chinese occupation (pictured to the right).He had waved at the crowd and sat on the General's hand, stretching his criminal performance to a good 15 minutes, while as police tried their best to coax him down.
"If it is done properly the entire economy will be transformed, benefiting everyone from the humblest rickshaw puller to the wealthiest industrialist".Bangladesh, the eighth most populated country in the world and among the poorest, could certainly do with the money.
The co-op can rely on an industrial producer a so-called "grease puller"—driving a lorry around the area's restaurants to collect its raw material free.
Industrials think Mediobanca is still a useful puller of strings.
Sandy was the sly onlooker and chief teller of the tale, as well as the puller of the strings.
Known as a wire puller, he became Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone's lieutenant in the House of Commons and in 1882 was appointed president of the Board of Trade in Gladstone's second ministry (1880 85).
Joachim Bitterlich, Mr Kohl's string-puller, who is set to become ambassador to NATO, was often called Germany's "secret foreign minister"—much to the fury of the actual minister, Klaus Kinkel.
In any case, despite his worth as a vote-puller, it is far from certain that the party will put him forward to challenge Mr Chen in 2004.
ReprintsA hugely expansive figure, tall and beefy, Mr Hombach is a man of many talents: election campaigner, author of a book giving economic substance to Mr Schröder's chatter of a "new middle" in politics, and, perhaps above all, a master-puller of countless strings.
Sitting in the back of a cycle-rickshaw on a parched summer's day in his hometown of Begusarai, he asked his rickshaw-puller for a drink of water.
The real crowd-puller in Chernivtsti was Mr Shevchenko, rather than the party's two local candidates who are both new to national-level politics.
